However, the paper's influence and its spittle-spewing rage are new additions to the mix - and there's an extra political angle, too.

Just as David Davies wins a by-election standing on a civil liberties platform, so the Mail continues to support the Tory leader, David Cameron.

But in this case, Cameron has very close links with Google - as we've documented in the past - and it'll be interesting to see if the Mail gets the Tory front bench to take a stand on this issue, or if it just slides into history as another one of the paper's moments of fury.

Personally, I'm torn. I use the US version of Street View a lot, but don't like the idea of a surveillance society. However, given the number of CCTV cameras which spy on me every day, I'm not sure that a Google car counts as the biggest infringement of my liberties right now.